HANDS FLAILED WILDLY to synth pop beats soaked in Latin fervour.
Scores sang along to club bangers, powered by complimentary alcohol and fed by the energy emitted by two of the biggest Spanish-speaking acts out of the United States.
CHUM FM’s Breakfast in Barbados’ headliners Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias made sure that if it was a party patrons were looking for, it was a party they got.
Those looking for a night of spell-binding talent and great musicianship, however, should have saved the money for another concert.
The four-hour event at Holders House in St James ended minutes before midnight with Give Me Everything, a collaboration between Pitbull and last year’s show stealer Ne-Yo.
In fact, the recording artist’s set list comprised a host of collaborators, from pop princesses Christina Aguilera (Feel This Moment) and Ke (Timber) to kings of auto-tune T-Pain (Hey Baby) and Akon (Shut It Down).
Music videos blasted from a large screen as the audience waited for Pitbull to spit a few rhymes. Near-identical dancers intermittently pranced predictably across the stage, occasionally peppering the routine with salsa breaks.
 . . . And the crowd loved it.
Enrique Iglesias had a lava-lamp effect on the ladies: pretty to look at, but very little musical substance.
The Spanish-American singer half-performed, half-lip-synched a mix of hits old and new, snagged by a few technical hiccups.
I Like It, Heart Attack, Tonight (I’m Loving You) got the crowd sweating, while more sentimental ballads, Hero and Bailamos, slowed the pace.
Dripping with charisma, Enrique also gave an added treat to an unassuming Canadian couple celebrating their seventh wedding anniversary.
Plucking them from the crowd, the singer gave them a special serenade to Hero, even allowing Jeff, the husband, to sing the chorus fortified by liquid courage.
Cris Cab promptly opened the show 8 p.m. to a warm response from a building crowd.
They were followed by the refreshingly talented Canadian pop-reggae band Magic!
